The ''Quốc âm thi tập'' (國音詩集 "National language poetry collection") is a vernacular-

Vietnamese language Vietnamese ( vi, tiếng Việt, links=no) is an Austroasiatic languages, Austroasiatic language originating from Vietnam where it is the national language, national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by over 70 million people, ...

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

book written in

chữ nôm Chữ Nôm (, ; ) is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. It uses Chinese characters (''Chữ Hán'') to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented ...

script attributed to

Nguyễn Trãi Nguyễn Trãi (阮廌), pen name Ức Trai (抑齋); (1380–1442) was an illustrious Vietnamese Confucian scholar, a noted poet, a skilled politician and a master strategist. He was at times attributed with being capable of almost miraculous or ...

. The collection of 254 poems was traditionally written after Nguyễn Trãi's retirement from court life. The original ''Quốc âm thi tập'' influenced emperor-reformer

Lê Thánh Tông Lê Thánh Tông (黎聖宗; 25 August 1442 – 3 March 1497), personal name Lê Hạo, temple name Thánh Tông, courtesy name Tư Thành, was an emperor of Đại Việt, reigning from 1460 to 1497, the fifth and the longest-reigning empe ...

, best known for his Hồng Đức legal code. Lê Thánh Tông was also a poet, and organized a literary group, the Tao Dan, producing another vernacular chữ nôm collection, the ''Hồng Đức Quốc Âm thi tập'' (Hồng Đức National pronunciation poetry collection").Mona Baker, Gabriela Saldanha ''Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies'' 2009 - Page 532 "The staff of Nam Phong also translated early Vietnamese texts in Chinese and nom into quoc ngu, for example Hong Duc quoc-am thi-tap (Collected Poems of the Hong Duc Period) and Phan Huy Chu's Lich trieu hien chuong loai chi (Regulations Made by the Various Dynasties, Arranged in Categories)."

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Vietnamese poems Lê dynasty literature {{poetry-collection-stub